Archive For April 12, 2008

Blog Data Corruption

The only thing worse than no backups is restoring bad backups. A database guy should get these things right. But, I didn’t, and earlier today I made some major site-wide changes and, as a side effect, this blog was restored to December 4th, 2007. I’m working on recovering the content and will come up with…

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International Conference on Data Engineering 2008

I was on a panel at the International Conference on Data Engineering yesterday morning in Cancun, Mexico but I was only there for Friday. You’re probably asking “why would someone fly all the way to Cancun for one lousy day?” Not a great excuse, but it goes like this: the session was originally scheduled for…

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